Tips or help for my friend's mom who is 56 years old and just recently got laid off from her job? She is bummed out, what can she do next?

I would first suggest she gets friends and family support. If she is spiritually look for some comfort in her faith. Regroup and make a plan.

File for unemployment while she take time to think and organize her thought. Sometime things happen for a reason, maybe there is something better for her out there to discover. Maybe she should read these two articles by TIME.

They seem like they might giver her some suggestions legally and emotionally. I wish her luck.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.